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" I do not think you can build this fortress yourself" - Foucault's project was about general cultural situation in 60s., it is not about somebody's i...
August 07, 2018 at 19:44
" I object", I resign", I love", " I promise" - all of them are dependent indirectly on " I speak".
August 07, 2018 at 18:11
Foucault problematized " I speak" as having the two propositions hidden in the statement ( " I speak" and I say that I speak"): " They are in no way c...
August 07, 2018 at 15:36
" To take your "I speak" as being spoken in a specific language", " To see any utterance in a living language as also carrying commitment to a linguis...
August 07, 2018 at 14:52
"The meaning of the speech acts can not be analyzed without context".You are right. Yet, what do you mean applying the word " context"? You list of ex...
August 07, 2018 at 14:29
Is it possible to find a link between "I lie" and "I speak"? Both can be split into two interdependent propositions.
August 07, 2018 at 02:36
Nevertheless, it is still possible to try to analyze " I speak" relating it to different philosophical traditions and theories of language.
August 06, 2018 at 23:12
Anyway, thank you.
August 06, 2018 at 22:30
What is your area?
August 06, 2018 at 22:07
For Paolo Virno " I speak" is an "absolute performative" which has a function of foregrounding the "event of Language". Another example is Foucault's ...
August 06, 2018 at 21:23
About Lazzaroto there is a quote above. " I speak" has a special privileged status, different from any other statement; it can support or destroy the ...
August 06, 2018 at 18:25
Actually, " I speak" is a kind of artificial construct and for better understanding we need to relate this utterance iwith a concrete situation. But h...
August 06, 2018 at 17:58
"Zionist movement is controlling the agenda in the UK ( and elsewhere)." This is pure Antisemitism = Fascism.
August 06, 2018 at 16:03
"It does not really commit one to anything" - Could you imagine somebody speaking without involving a kind of illocutionary commitment? There is no il...
August 06, 2018 at 15:36
"How the Zionist movement is controlling the agenda in the UK ( and elsewhere)." Are you serious about this statement? It is an absolute conspirologic...
August 06, 2018 at 15:24
"The idea of Brexit is related to Brexit as process" You are right. So, there are idea, and a reality as process, but there is also a slogan between t...
August 06, 2018 at 13:14
" They voted for the return of the British Empire". This is the very important point, that I tried to develop. There is nothing wrong in the slogan :"...
August 05, 2018 at 23:51
Sorry, I do not have my computer with me now, so I can not bring the exact quote. I meant the famous discussion between Derrida and Foucault about Cog...
August 05, 2018 at 20:16
Basically, your answer is verifying what I said before. We do not agree just because the word " Brexit" has two possible meanings: 1) Brexit as idea 2...
August 05, 2018 at 19:11
I do not doubt that you are able perfectly articulate what ( was) and is Brexit about! But what is your government position? It is opened to endless i...
August 05, 2018 at 18:03
Of course! But what can we say new about Descartes'Cogito after intensive discussions of greatest thinkers of 20- s century! - by the way, most of the...
August 05, 2018 at 17:10
I think it is impossible to apply the concept of fascism ( understood as existing for long period of time regime like real Hitler's one or imaginary O...
August 05, 2018 at 16:00
You are talking about quite narrow class of statements. What about " I love you" or "Make America great again!"? What is their relation with truth?
August 05, 2018 at 15:04
" What cultural resources tend to support fascism?"I think it is the political culture of "fake news" and "whitch hunt". In the last few years, mass m...
August 05, 2018 at 14:53
It is not clear if Trump's ambitions are limited by some rational frames. Indeed, sometimes it looks like he believes in a kind of Napoleonic mission.
August 05, 2018 at 13:37
"People want their countries back" - what do people want? We can take an example of Brexit - now it is almost impossible to say what is Brexit about! ...
August 05, 2018 at 12:10
" I generally follow Taine in the French Revolution and the parallel seems clear from that" - Could you explain how Taine can be applied to our situat...
August 05, 2018 at 03:15
But why all these has gotten an additional momentum in the last few years? And why Trump's presidency has become so catalyzing factor?
August 04, 2018 at 15:54
There are so many versions and interpretations why the French Revolution happened. Yet,there is no working explanatory model that can be applied to ou...
August 04, 2018 at 15:46
It is right. However, It is quiet unprecedented that such politicians could receive 30%-40% of the popular vote. One can ask a question how even a sma...
August 04, 2018 at 11:20
This is a very important point. Foucault in his preface to Anti-Oedipus differentiate between two kinds of fascistic desire: "the major enemy, the str...
August 03, 2018 at 21:29
You are right. Berardi was quite superficial.Yet, there are some factors that he did not brought: the speed of the events plus accumulative effect of ...
August 03, 2018 at 19:57
There were just few actual cases of fascism in history. Even stalinism was not fascism. So we have just Germany and Italy, may be Spain.Therefore, we ...
August 03, 2018 at 19:49
What Descartes was about, apparently, was making a better and safer world. If he could just restore God as perfect (again), and use that perfection as...
August 03, 2018 at 19:10
Exactly - they are riding a wave (this wave actually is true desire!) - and under some circumstances this wave, taking all working factors together in...
August 03, 2018 at 18:17
Thank you for your points! "But let me put things more brutally in economic terms, avoiding the mess of both politics and psychology. Mass production ...
August 03, 2018 at 17:52
You are right. So far, I do not see any way out of this stalemate. Yet, we can try to understand what is going on.
August 03, 2018 at 16:43
"Is you doing those acts a consequence of me “being divisive” or just you being a vandal?"Anyway, in the most general view, all active “subjects”- Tra...
August 03, 2018 at 15:26
The way of Descartes was not safe and comfortable walk through different modi of I. As Derrida pointed out: "The act of Cogito is no longer a question...
August 01, 2018 at 16:12
As Deleuze and Gvattari wrote, Descartes’s cogito is self-sufficient set of philosophical concepts. "To start with, the preceding analysis must be con...
July 31, 2018 at 20:56
So if there was an act of thinking, isn't it necessary to assume that there was something engaged in this act, or else it wouldn't be an act at all? W...
July 31, 2018 at 18:24
Nevertheless,psychoanalisys practices demonstrate grounding procedures for establishing "I"(In the absence of Descartes' style methods) I would bring ...
July 30, 2018 at 23:33
That said, it is not just any synthetic a priori truth; it is rather the I's self-grounding act, its self-creation. Descartes explains the nature of s...
July 30, 2018 at 23:10
"It is impossible that a thought could will itself into existence. It must already exist in order to will anything. So willing itself into existence w...
July 30, 2018 at 22:41
However the association of the "I" with this thought, is not equally affirmed by Descartes, indeed throughout the Meditations Descartes refers to hims...
July 30, 2018 at 22:15
We can consider the most prominent figures of psychoanalyses: Freud and Lacan. Their theories and practices can provide evidence that Nietzsche was ri...
July 30, 2018 at 22:07
Neitzsche in aphorism 17 (BG&E) Reiterates Descartes own criticism of himself, with the empirically correct observation that 'a thought comes when it ...
July 29, 2018 at 23:56
"The cogito comes in different forms. "I think, therefore I am." "This proposition, I am, I exist, is necessarily true whenever it is put forward by m...
July 29, 2018 at 14:56